Apparatus for shrinking cloth



Patented Mar. 17, 1891.-

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,459, dated March 1'7, 1891.

Application filed January 28,1890- Serial No. 338,405. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. SCHAEFER,

of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahosa and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for bnrinking Uloin; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in portable apparatus for shrinking cloth, the same beingwell adapted, for instance, forthe use of merchant tailors; and it consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts, hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my invention, portions being broken away to show the construction; and Fig. 2 is a sectional View of pipe 15 and the head of the drum. I

A represents a closed container that serves as a steam-generator,the same being adapted to sit on a stove or range or over a burner of any kind. The container is provided with a water-gage A and a filling-nozzle A the latter being closed, preferably, by means of a screw-threaded plug A. The container is provided, also,with handles A" for lifting the device.

Bis the discharge-pipe for steam and for the purpose of re-enforcing the top and bottom walls of the generator and for holding the pipe more firmly in place. The pipe is preferably screwed into flanges a a, these flanges being secured, respectively, to the top and bottom walls of the generator. The upper end of pipe B is tapering, and tits inside a correspondingly-tapering hole in head C of drum C, this head having preferably a depending fiange 0 around the hole to give sufficient thickness of metal. Drum C is closed top and bottom, and the side walls thereof are perforated for the exit of steam. Pipe B also has holesb just below the top walls of the generator to admit steam inside the pipe. The joint between pipe B and the drum should be a ground joint, so that it will not leak steam.

In operating the device the drum is re moved from pipe B, and the cloth that is to be shrunk is wound 011 the drum, after which the drum is returned to its place on pipe B. hen the steam is afterward generated in the container, it passes from thence into pipe B, and from thence into the drum, and from thence passes through the perforations of the drum into the cloth, by means of which the cloth is soon dampened sufficiently for the purpose. The generator is then allowed to cool down, and after the steam is exhausted the drum may be removed from the pipe and the cloth unwound.

The device is simple and comparatively inexpensive. The drum, if of sheet iron or steel, should be galvanized or plated to prcvent its rusting. If a more expensive appa ratus is desired, the drum might be made of thin sheet. brass or copper.

\Vhat I claim is-- The combination, with a portable steamgenerator and a steam-pipe connected by screw-threads to the upper and lower ends of said generator and provided with openings for the entrance of steam, of a detachable perforated drum into which the steampipe discharges, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 16th day of January, 1890.

CHARLES XV. SOI'IAEFER.

Witnesses:

C. II. Donna, WILL B. SAGE. 

